So I have a juicer, a fairly expensive Breville that has been sitting in my cupboard for at least 5 years. I’m moving soon and I’m trying to decide whether to keep it or cast off the dead weight. Here are my cons for keeping it:
I don’t really have any pros except the general idea that juicing is supposed to be good and healthy.
Can anyone give me good reasons to keep it and tell me if juicing has a place in a healthy diet? (Not just for detox or something like that)
Thank you for the help!
If you don’t use it, no point. Better to get rid of it and pick up a nutribullet or similar to do smoothies. That’s a much more convenient option, and you can hide a decent whack of veggies or fiber supplements amongst fruit/dairy/oats.
I feel as if juicers are the most useless appliance ever lol. As you said whole fruits and even a smoothie with blended whole fruits is healthier. If you want any fruit juice then you might as well just buy some at the store it’s usually not that expensive and especially if you’re not drinking it all right away.
I use my juicer quite a bit. I juice carrots celery and beets. Then I add this juice to my blender full of kale, spinach and avocado. I don’t blend it smooth. I leave it with a lot of bits. I feel great after I drink these.
I mean if you make a glass of juice once a week it’s not going to kill you. Juice isn’t unhealthy, drinking juice all the time is. If you eat a healthy diet and treat yourself with juice once in a while it’s completely okay you don’t need to maximize the nutritional benefit of every single thing you eat
I’ve tried juicing for a while but sort of gave up on it.
Done mostly vegetable juices with like half an apple for tall glass for some sweetness. Added lemon to green jucies.
Pros - when we talk about mostly vegetable juices they are much tastier/ easier to drink than smoothies for me. I added very little fruits as I didn’t want to add much sugar.I wasn’t really concerned with lack of fiber as I have enough of it in my regular diet and with fiber, it’s good to hit a certain level but adding more over that isn’t beneficial and can be detrimental.
The biggest con was the amount of stuff you need to use. It gets expensive, you have to buy big quantities or visit store often, it generates a lot of waste that I have no real use in an apartment. All the shopping and then preparation and clean up gets time consuming if done daily/ multiple times each week.
If somone put a glass of freshly made jucie in front of me I would gladly drink it but going through all of the effort to get it done throws me away.
Sell it. It’s not that juice per ze is unhealthy. But in general you should not drink your calories and especially not as sugars.
Fruit can best be eaten whole (sometimes skinned and cored formatie smartasses in this sub) or otherwise blended but still with its fibers.
I have a large garden and in the winter months I make lots of soups drinks and smoothies from the frozen fruit and vegetables. I produce more than my family can possibly eat, so I juice as a way to remove the bulk fiber from the vegetables and fruits that I would otherwise throw away in the summer months and this becomes a way to retain soluble fiber and nutrients. I freeze canning jars filled with the fresh juices and use them as soup stocks and fruit drinks during the winter and spring. I also can the juices for convenience and shelf stability but canning destroys much of the nutrients so this becomes my super excess after my freezers are filled. FYI little goes to waste I juice the greens of carrots, beet greens or turnip and radish leaves as well as the excess Swiss chard, kale, radicchio and arugula which I can never store. The soluble fiber of vegetable juice is an excellent prebiotic as long as you’re getting lots of fiber from whole Foods the fruits and vegetables; juices can be an excellent way to supplement an already healthy diet.
because of low yield of juice compared to cost of fruit i now do a hybrid juice. ill just an orange or apple or whatever in the morning, and mix 12 oz of sparkling water with it. that stops me from buying juice from a market and i think its still decently healthy,
The benefit of juicing would be it could add more variety to your diet since some of the nutrition will go directly in your blood and you dont make your digestive system busy so give it a rest for a while.
I mean one of my dreams was to have a juicer, get a bag of carrots eat week, practice knife skills then juice them afterwards to add to my protein drink. (I do tofu, coconut milk, carrot juice, fortified milk).